Wouldn't it be easier to take them off the streets?

Well, I guess that's one of the last places the cops would expect you to steal from...

A man pleaded not guilty in New York to stealing three vehicles from a police impound lot and selling them for scrap.

The District Attorney's Office in New York's Queens borough said Carmine Antonelle, 61, of Selden, N.Y., allegedly used his tow truck to take a 1991 Volvo and 1995 Dodge Caravan from a New York Police Department Narcotics impound lot in Queens, the New York Post reported Monday.

Seeing as how that's the kind of thing that's pretty hard to miss, it sounds like that impound lot needs to hire some new guards.